A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by ...

The team analyzed 10 arrowheads, dated to 60,000 years ago, that were found in excavated soil layers from the Umhlatuzana ...

The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in ...

The world’s oldest poisoned arrows - dating back 60,000 years - have been identified. The discovery reveals early advanced ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

Scientists have just identified the oldest traces of arrow poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrows unearthed in South Africa.

The quartz arrowheads were collected from sediment at Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa dated to the ...

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...